Archive for January 1st, 2006

Anti-aging medicine at eleven years: reflections and projections as a new era begins

Sunday, January 1st, 2006

“The end of the beginning”
The American Academy for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) proclaims in Science magazine’s February 28, 2003 issue that current aging research has reached its concluding point. Explaining that “[Scientists who study aging] have focused on physiological mechanisms underlying the processes of aging, rather than on the large array of debilitating and […]

The causal link between infectious diseases and heart disease

Sunday, January 1st, 2006

Heart disease is the leading cause of death in the US and is projected to be the leading cause of disability in the world by 2020. Researchers from Johns Hopkins University studied 900 heart disease patients and found that the more infectious agents patients tested positive for, the more likely they were to die of […]